| Show I cB e I LAWS THAT TEAT MAKE POLYGAMY LEGAL LEEAL I Dispatch Washington There is no legal ob obstacle obstacle obstacle stacle to a mans man having a lawful l Irful wife in nearly ever every state st te in the Union and andI I living with each one a week at a time in turn That is l tate way Represent Representative Representative I Tayler of Ohio Obio sums up the i powers on n the subject of marriage and andI j I divorce possessed by the proud Amer Atner American AmerI I ican sovereign reign Mr Tayler wishes the constitution so 00 amended that congress will have authority to make laws on op the fhe subject of marriage and divorce that shall produce uniformity Mr Tayler some time ago offered a 8 resolution submitting an amendment tp to the constitution to the legislatures le of the states In Iii discussing title Wie subject today he said mid The exclusion of Brigham H Rob Roberts erts ens from a seat eat in the house hoie of representatives I has aroused arouse sentiment Ion on the question of a constitutional amendment prohibiting polygamy and has again brought to the front the ne necessity neI necessity for uniform legislation on the I subject of marriage and d divorce The National Divorce Reform league has been for many years systematic systematically ally working along the line of m educating educatIng educatIng ing public sentiment with late twe purpose of procuring action t by y the several state legislatures The great alue of or the work which the league is doing Is everywhere ever w here recognized recognised All friends of the reform of our divorce laws must I welcome and approve the work of edu education education education cation and practical accomplishment which is being dt crone n whether through uniformity in the legislation of the die several states or by a constitutional amendment giving to congress power to enact uniform laws on Oft the subject I have recently introduced I in the house of representatives a joint rose reso resolution lution for such SUM h ati amendment and shall prose press it to passage in the present I congress and in the next congress if i it shall fail fall in this Progress s in such cases is necessarily stow sow The for tor uniformity espe especially daily in respect to tu divorce laws l WS oe Ce comes more apparent t the more one studies the subject Under the laws as asey I they ey now exist it is not an infrequent occurrence for lOl a man n to die leaving more than tihan one lawful wife wire with two or more sets of lawful children But these I lawful wives may not be wives at all if they move into some other state state and these e lawful l children may become ille illegitimate illegitimate by simply removing from the state of their t residence into another state G i In a case which bas fias tas actually oc occurred occurred occurred a man having divorced his two former f wives died in the state tate of Indi Indiana ann ana leaving a wife and ami children in New ew York a wife in I Indiana a wife aiM children in California and leaving real estate in tacit of these states Each I wife took In li the state of her resi residence i dence It would be an Interesting ting work I Ito to discover di cov r the law 1 that would have I prevented that husband hUband from main man maintaining taming polygamous relations with all aU aUf t of f these wives provided he visited them only in the states of their domicile I And what would have been the legal status of the children born of the Cali California fornia fOrn wife It if he be had bad moved moed to New NewYork NewYork York and there made his home Let me present pre ent one or two Illustrations of ot the fri ul possibilities of our present system tea A 4 marriage oc occurred occurred occurred I In New Ne Ork The wife some sometime someI sometime time later went w nt to jo Ohio and procured a divorce The hu and nd remaining in I New York supposed that the divorce dissolved the marriage relations as to him and married again His new con connubial t I bliss was as disturbed by a prose prosecution cution for fr bigamy bi y He was convicted and end his conviction sustained by the higher r courts court It is apparent from the thc law of that case cue that the wife could marry In hi Ohio and alternately aJI live with her husband there and with her bel hus husband husband husband I band in New York without violating any law Of tOr course the forms formu and extent of polygamy which h can thuS be practiced p are almost as numerous ps s there are states jn the Union There Theres Is absolutely no legal logal obstacle preventing a mans having hing a lawful wife VUe and a lawful I brood br d of children in every state where I the doctrine of the t e New York court prevails preva Is S Instances might be indefinitely mul multiplied multiplied mu of the frightful and demoralizing demor ing results of want of If uniformity in our divorce e laws And it is this want of uniformity which Is more to be deplored than the Ole allowance or of o divorces for in I sufficient causes es deplorable as s that i iThe is The sam sanctity and universality of thc marriage tie tic ti form the cornerstone One of ur our civilization and their preservation is as necessary as any other mirat I force The relation of husband and wits if unlike property relations sUbsists wherever the husband nd and wife may go A man is none the less a ft married man if it he chances to be in New York and his wife in California than if both are at the place of their domicile and this it te Is which furnishes the unan unanswerable unanswerable argument for or federal control of this important and re relation lation S |
